Six Weeks To Go – Are you Ready? Complying with the CFTC’s External Business Conduct Rules

Slides from the May 21 ISDA webinar. By May 1, all counterparties must have provided their registered Swap Dealers with legal classifications and representations to allow the Swap Dealers to comply with the CFTC’s External Business Conduct Rule (EBCR). After the EBCR deadline, Swap Dealers will only continue offering and executing swaps with in-scope counterparties who have provided the necessary information for compliance. With Katherine Darras, General Counsel, Americas, ISDA;
David Moss, Partner, Purrington Moody Weil LLP;
Lauren Teigland-Hunt, Managing Partner at Teigland-Hunt LLP.

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